[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?

[d3fault]

lol wut?

Did you guys feel that earthquake? It wasn't huge, but it's indicative of a
pressure build-up right beneath our feet. And you expect us to build our
houses on this land? Frack that, I'm moving to Nebraska.
(Translation: I'm definitely using QWidgets from now on. If Nokia kills Qt
or gets bought out by Microsoft, QML is dead. It's too large and unfinished
(also undocumented ;-)) for the community to take over, and Microsoft has
no reason to continue development on it (in fact it's in their interest to
NOT do anything with it))

I'm 100% certain that _eventually_ there will be a real upgrade path for
QWidget users. I'm 100% certain of this because if enough time elapses and
nobody else does it, I'll do it myself. I need to build my "house" first,
unfortunately... and I need a stable foundation to build it on. 'done' =
stable <3. Before today's events I was actually considering using QML
(mainly on Raspberry Pi (high gpu, low cpu -- hw accel is practically
necessary)), which probably comes as a shock given all the ranting I've
done against it. But now you'd have to be insane to even consider QML for
anything you don't plan on rewriting in the next couple of years...

Re: Qt is 'dead', finding another framework, etc
Are you guys forgetting that Qt is Free Software? Long live Richard
Stallman!
Qt, at least the source code/COMMUNITY that makes it up, will survive. No
matter what.

The Qt Trademark and the Nokia Corporation might die (except Qt won't ever
'officially' die. It's in Nokia/Microsoft's best interest to not let the
BSD Clause ( http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php)
ever get triggered. They'll release a 1-byte patch once per year, or
maybe a small bugfix or something, and it'll never get triggered)

I think as Qt gets less and less love (the subject of this thread and
today's news), it becomes smarter to fork Qt. Why give them the money
(sorry Digia, you're a casualty of war at this point) if they're just
sitting on it? It also sends the message: "We're not going to take your
bullshizzle. Qt is bigger than Nokia and Microsoft", which I confidently
stand behind.
I also think it's vital that the community acts as a whole. Segregation is
[probably?] worse than giving Nokia/Microsoft moneys for sitting on Qt.
Thiago is in the best position to keep the community together as it
forks.... but I'm not sure about him. He may have flipped. He's a great
engineer, but at this point it's all about lolitics (I've been saving that
bit for a special occassion (but eh, terrible time for a joke. I'm being
cereal in this post)). He once tried to convince me that Microsoft actually
likes Qt. Uhhh.......... WHAT???

This is going to be an interesting next few months,
d3fault
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